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Summer Nights 2019 Gift Guide

Christmas is almost here, and let’s be real: You’re not prepared. Neither are we, to be honest, but luckily with FRINGE WORLD fast approaching we have the lowdown on the best way to wow your extended family at the upcoming frivolities. Read on for our hot tips on the best last minute Christmas gifts for the whole family…and we mean the whole family.

Why? This entire show is about women talking secret smack
about each other in the workplace. Who knows, maybe some tickets to this show
might even spare you from Aunt Shirley’s pointed looks during your third
helping of trifle…

Your “Have you heard that episode of This American Life where…” CousinShow? The Basement Tapes

Why? This is an international production that claims to be Twin Peaks meets Serial, a combo designed to satisfy even the biggest podcast snob in the family. With a bunch of awards to boot, a creepy New Zealand mystery is a safe bet for that guy who won’t shut up about Joe Rogan.

Why? This whole show is about how bloody tricky it is to be
a teenager, and how complicated that family sh*t can be. They’ll love how much
they can see themselves in the dorky main character, and it’ll be a laugh for
the whole family.

Why? This is a group of old-mates drinking beers and playing
tunes, and Jacob Diamond’s little brother is in it. There’s a heap of live
music, and it got great reviews in Sydney. Enough said? Yeah, cheers.

Why? The whole gimmick of this show is watching an
unprepared dude read out a script that details a woman’s internal monologue
while she’s making the beast with two backs. It’s guaranteed to produce an
embarrassed chuckle or fifty, and there’s a great line-up of Perth heart throbs
programmed for the season.

Why? This show tackles the dumb baggage that comes along
with being a second-generation Australian, and goes right back to the roots of
its charming creator and performer, Tabitha Woo. There’s show tunes, a subtle
dismantling of systemic racism, and sock puppets. Perfect.

Why? Wil Greenway, if you haven’t heard of him before, is a too-pure-for-this-world, international Fringe festival sensation who often travels with his beautiful partner and is known for making people weep while describing someone tying their shoelace, or something. Get the waterworks on.

Why? Feminah is the follow up show from Charlotte Otton, the
woman behind Perth’s recent pop-feminism smash hit Let me finish (returning for FRINGE WORLD 2019). She’s 6 feet of
talented pussy power, and her one woman show is sure to satisfy the wokest of
the woke.

Why? This is a whole theatrical experience about respecting
your elders, and remembering your family roots. It’s coming to Perth from New
Zealand, and the award winning Samoan grandad of the show is set to charm the
socks right off anyone he meets.

Why? Perfect for your Theatre (with a capital T) loving
rellies, this new drama was written in response to Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge (they’ll know
what that is). Director Lucy Clements is a well-loved Perth expat, and it’s
sure to satisfy the tense, theatrical desires of a more refined FRINGE WORLD
goer.

Why? This is two young men from Melbourne doing sketch
comedy-theatre with some not-so-subtle hints of The Mighty Boosh for good
measure. Reviews from Melbourne say it’s ‘best when they stay on script.’ It’ll
be dumb. It’ll be great.

Why? Trick of the Light Theatre have won the Children’s’ Event Award at FRINGE WORLD twice before, and their latest show has been met with similar rave reviews in its previous tours. It’s techy, it’s speccy, it’s weird, and it’s got children’s prices. Nice.

Or give the gift of FRINGE WORLD, head to fringeworld.com.au and get a voucher – a choice that will leave all that show choice up to